{"id":324532,"date":"2025-12-19T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324532\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:28:11","slug":"new-scottish-radio-station-announces-january-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324532\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scottish radio station announces January launch date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  STV Radio says it will offer Scotland\u2019s favourite radio voices and music from the 80s, 90s and 2000s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Presenters Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey will be the first on air when their breakfast show launches at 8am, and the station&#8217;s slogan is &#8220;never the same song, all day long&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  STV has said the music station will mainly be aimed at 35 to 54-year-olds, and will be available on DAB and online.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25709803.coronation-street-waterloo-road-stars-pay-tribute-william-rush-dies-aged-31\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coronation Street and Waterloo Road star William Rush dies aged 31<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Weather presenter Sean Batty will also feature on the station, as will presenters Alan Edwards and Jane McCarry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Graham Bryce, managing director of audio at STV, said: \u201cThe countdown to the STV Radio launch is well and truly under way and we\u2019re delighted to unveil our full schedule today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe\u2019ve assembled an enviable line-up of Scottish presenting talent, with some of the country\u2019s best-known and most-loved radio voices, as well as popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/tv\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TV<\/a> stars who I\u2019m looking forward to hearing make the transition to the airwaves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSTV Radio is made in Scotland for the people of Scotland, and the regional diversity of our line-up reflects our commitment to serving every corner of the country with our daily offering of great music, relatable chat and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 fun.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>(Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Earlier this week, regulator Ofcom said it proposes to accept STV\u2019s request to make changes to its television licence for the north and central Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The broadcaster plans to have a new STV News At 6 programme from Glasgow, which will contain some dedicated content for viewers in the north.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The National Union of Journalists has said these changes will be \u201cbad for journalism\u201d but the company has stressed news-gathering operations will continue on the ground in all its existing sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STV Radio says it will offer Scotland\u2019s favourite radio voices and music from the 80s, 90s and 2000s.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}